On 16 Feb 2005, at 4:07 am, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4266909.stm
Civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined a legal fight between three US online journalists and Apple. Apple wants the reporters to reveal 20 sources used for stories which leaked information about forthcoming products, including the Mac Mini.
The EFF, representing the reporters, has asked California's Superior court to stop Apple pursuing the sources.
It argues that the journalists are protected by the American constitution.
The EFF says the case threatens the basic freedoms of the press.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7937-2005Jan13_2.html
"But while lawsuits against online publications are rare, he said, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, versions of which have been adopted by about 45 states, including California, prevents third parties from exposing information knowingly obtained from sources bound by confidentiality agreements. [i.e., an NDA]
"Just because you don't have a relationship with the company doesn't necessarily immunize you, if you publish what you reasonably should have known was a trade secret," [Andrew] Beckerman-Rodau[, who runs the intellectual property program at Boston's Suffolk University Law School] said. "The First Amendment has been asserted more and more against intellectual property rights, but it's not faring well. Most courts haven't accepted it.""
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